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Exam Tips for ACCA F1 – F3
No exam tips available – Multiple choice questions cover entire syllabus
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ACCA Exam tips for Paper F4 English & Global
The F4 exam will be a 2 hour paper, with all questions being compulsory,
NO TIPS – questions will cover the entire syllabus.
There will be two sections to the exam:
Section A will comprise 25 objective test questions of 2 marks each, and 20 objective test questions of 1 mark each.
Section B will comprise five 6 mark multi-task questions.
ACCA Exam tips for Paper F5
Section A – 20 MCQ’s from throughout the syllabus
Section B – 5 questions:
– Target costing together with life-cycle costing
– Linear programming
– Planning and Operation variances (or possibly labour idle time variances)
– Performance measurement (mainly non-financial)
– Learning curves
ACCA Exam tips for Paper F6
Exam tips for Paper F6
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ACCA Exam tips for Paper F7
Section A
40 marks MCQ anywhere from the syllabus
Section B
15 marks – one on IAS 41 Agriculture (new in syllabus),
15 marks – on Revenue recognition (SA technical article)
1 x 30 marks – either consolidation (25 marks) with 5 mark chat
or
preparation of financial statements (Financial Position, Profit or Loss and Changes in Equity)
ACCA Exam tips for Paper F8
Section A – All topics will be examined
Section B
Audit planning and risk assessment
Internal control evaluation/criticism: sales system
Audit evidence for specific figures in the financial statements
Computer assisted audit techniques
Ethical dilemmas
ACCA Exam tips for Paper F9
Section A – 20 MCQ’s from throughout the syllabus
Section B – 5 questions:
– Receivables management
– NPV with tax and inflation
– Foreign exchange risk management
– WACC calculation including CAPM
– Gearing (both operational and financial)
ACCA Exam tips for Paper P1
Technical articles from SA:
Public sector governance (2 articles)
Board diversification
Environmental accounting and reporting
COSO enterprise risk management
Also:
Integrated reporting (new to syllabus)
Ethics (technical article in P7)
Be prepared to need to use a calculator in the exam
ACCA Exam tips for Paper P2
Question 1
Consol SoFP including foreign subsidiary (last asked in June 2011)
Questions 2 and 3
Various IAS / IFRS – possibly Leasing, Revenue, Provisions and Contingencies, Almost certainly Agriculture (new to syllabus)
Question 4 – 3 technical articles from SA:
Impairment of financial assets
Hedge accounting
When does debt seem to be equity
Also:
Integrated reporting (new to syllabus)
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ACCA Exam tips for Paper P3
Q1: Pestel, 5 forces, Ansoff. Activity based costing
Q2: 6Is of e-business
Q3: Project initiation document: scope, cost, time quality considerations.
Q4: Outsourcing – pros and cons including marginal costing
ACCA Exam tips for Paper P4
Section A:
– Report involving the valuation of a business using free cash flows / calculation of WACC including ungearing and regearing betas.
Section B:
– Interest rate risk management
– Macauley Duration
– Value at Risk
ACCA Exam tips for Paper P5
Q1: Criticism of a report’s content and style relating back to mission.
Q2: Performance prism and non-financial performance measures
Q3: Transfer pricing
Q4: Environmental management accounting